Clive Hazell
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Hollywood Playhouse - The Oscar’s Collection
- Adapted for Radio & Performed in Front of a Live Studio Audience by Many of the Original Film Stars
- By: Mr Punch Audiobooks
- Narrated by: Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Hollywood Playhouse - The Oscar's Collection is a unique compilation of 12 Oscar winning films specially adapted for the radio and performed by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. Originally broadcast on the radio, they were to become as popular with the public as the movies themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is for audiophiles and cinephiles
- By Clive Hazell on 10-13-23
- Hollywood Playhouse - The Oscar’s Collection
- Adapted for Radio & Performed in Front of a Live Studio Audience by Many of the Original Film Stars
- By: Mr Punch Audiobooks
- Narrated by: Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Cary Grant, Sydney Greenstreet, Van Heflin, Katharine Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Huston, Alan Ladd
This is for audiophiles and cinephiles
Reviewed: 10-13-23
This set was a joy to me as I lay in bed with the flu. The stories are all abbreviated but with the original stars delivering the lines they became famous for. I have listened to some of the other playhouse performances of other movies but these are far better and wonderful to listen to. If you love being told a story with the best voices of golden Hollywood, then this box set is worth a purchase.
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The Mosquito
- A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
- By: Timothy C. Winegard
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 541
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 478
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 475
Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Major Disappointment
- By Amazon Customer on 09-02-19
- The Mosquito
- A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
- By: Timothy C. Winegard
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Impeccable told tale of the dangerous creature
Reviewed: 10-13-23
This book often reads like a PHD dissertation but the gift is that Mr. Winegard knows how to take the reader on a journey and weaves a remarkable history with science. The first time I listened I thought many of the facts, I had misheard so I went out to buy the book. The truth is shocking but the story and writing is impeccable. This is a man who is in charge of the facts and takes the reader/listener on a remarkable journey of the most dangerous creature on earth. Mark Deakins has a voice that brings the right amount of depth to the topic but never takes the listener out of the story.
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Hitchcock's Blondes
- The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
- By: Laurence Leamer
- Narrated by: Sharmila Devar
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4 out of 5 stars 25
Alfred Hitchcock was fixated—not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window, and other classic films didn’t much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were the rarest human specimen—a natural blonde—as long as they shone with a golden veneer on camera. The lengths he went to in order to showcase (and often manipulate) these women would become the stuff of movie legend.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Probably Most Effective If You’ve Never Seen a Hitchcock Film
- By Robbie on 02-01-24
- Hitchcock's Blondes
- The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
- By: Laurence Leamer
- Narrated by: Sharmila Devar
What a book. Cinephiles rejoice
Reviewed: 10-13-23
If anyone knows the works of Mr Leamer they will know he has a remarkable talent of creating astonishing non-fiction with characters and stories woven together to take you on a journey. His only weakness is banal titles that may make people dismiss the books as one-dimensional. They are not. To my mind, Laurence Leamer is one of the best non-fiction writers in the USA today. The performance by Ms. Devar is flawless and she doesn't narrate the story, she inhabits the characters. It is a delight to listen to. This is an auditory journey not to be missed (as is Capote's Women) and I literally inhaled it.
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American Overdose
- The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
- By: Chris McGreal
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 141
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story5 out of 5 stars 123
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An important read
- By Macmom4 on 02-18-19
- American Overdose
- The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
- By: Chris McGreal
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
An old story in a compelling way
Reviewed: 05-10-23
This story is an exceptional journey into America's love affair with pharmaceuticals and the tragedy it has led to. The statistics and stories are terrifying and tragic but it never gets bogged down in the minutiae. It is a human story matched by an outstanding narration. I could not stop listening.
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Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis
- By: Leon Neyfakh, Andrew Parsons, Sam Graham-Felsen, and others
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 637
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 594
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Story5 out of 5 stars 595
From the co-creators of Slow Burn, Fiasco is a narrative podcast that transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of America’s most pivotal historical events.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why it is important to remember
- By MB on 03-30-22
Sociological history with humanity
Reviewed: 12-31-22
I don't know what I was expecting when I clicked the first episode but it was not the depth, research and compassionate sociological journey that were contained in these 8 episodes. Truly outstanding.
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Confidence Man
- The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
- By: Maggie Haberman
- Narrated by: Maggie Haberman
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,879
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,300
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,261
Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better. Now, demonstrating her majestic command of this story, Haberman reveals in full the depth of her understanding of the 45th president himself, and of what the Trump phenomenon means.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is the only one you have to read
- By Amazon Customer on 10-06-22
- Confidence Man
- The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
- By: Maggie Haberman
- Narrated by: Maggie Haberman
I am not usually a fan but this is outstanding.
Reviewed: 12-29-22
I am usually appalled by authors reading their own work but this works. It is brilliantly written and no one knows the author's voice or the topic of the tone quite as well as the author. It is a complete and compelling story of a delusional loon. Listen to this on an empty stomach.
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This Is Going to Hurt
- Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
- By: Adam Kay
- Narrated by: Adam Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 650
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 570
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 574
Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life-and-death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun and honest about beeing a doctor
- By siri on 08-29-19
- This Is Going to Hurt
- Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
- By: Adam Kay
- Narrated by: Adam Kay
Laugh out loud funny
Reviewed: 09-20-22
Not for the faint of heart or weak of constitution but this is a story of how ridiculous we all are and how laughter really is the best medicine
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10,827
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,640
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9,606
If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6.
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5 out of 5 stars
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John Lee is GREAT!
- By David on 09-21-18
- The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
Great story and I hate spy stories
Reviewed: 04-18-22
I loved this story and the fact that it was non fiction made it even better. John Lee's narration was superb and flawless.
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Capote's Women
- A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
- By: Laurence Leamer
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 964
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 845
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 844
New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers—the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans."
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3 out of 5 stars
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You need to know a bit about the players
- By Etoile NEOhio on 12-30-21
- Capote's Women
- A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
- By: Laurence Leamer
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Brilliant
Reviewed: 04-03-22
Astonishing and long overdue. This book brings all the strands of stories and spins them into a tapestry that is well written, researched and better than most fictional tales. The performance is outstanding and Carrington MacDuffle is perfection.
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The Unfit Heiress
- The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
- By: Audrey Clare Farley
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4 out of 5 stars 91
At the turn of the 20th century, American women began to reject Victorian propriety in favor of passion and livelihood outside the home. This alarmed authorities, who feared certain "over-sexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects. Set against this backdrop, The Unfit Heiress chronicles the fight for inheritance, both genetic and monetary, between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her mother, Maryon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such an important story
- By TLH ~ 🎧 ~ on 05-08-21
- The Unfit Heiress
- The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
- By: Audrey Clare Farley
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Astonishing and well told story
Reviewed: 03-18-22
The story was well reviewed and rightly so. The author did an astonishing job of unraveling the story of eugenics and Ann Cooper Hewitt's life. The narrator is outstanding and is a reminder to authors not to narrate their own books.
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